Improvement in washing-machines



duidt hm ELIAS GRIGK, 0F PHILLIPSBURG, NEW JERSEY.

Letters 'Patent No. 113,024, dated March 28, 1871.

IMPROVEMENTlN WASHING-MAQHINES.

The Schedule refenedto in thse Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all 'whom #may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIAS Omen, of Phillipsburg, in the county of Wayne and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Washing-Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andv exact description thereof', Which-will enableothers skilledin the art to make and use the same, reference being had t0 the accompanying drawing forming part of this speciiicatiemin which- Figure I is a vertical longitudinal section of my improved machine taken through the line-x'rzg'g.

Figure 2 is a top view of the same, part being broken away to show the construction.

Similar' letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.v

My invention has for its object to furnish an'improved washing-machine simple in construction, effective in operation,'and easily operated; and

It consistsin the construction and arrangement of various parts of Y the machine, as hereinafter more fully described.

A is the boxer tub of the machine, which is snpported upon legs B, of such alength as to raise the machine to a convenient height.

The bottom of the box or tub A is made slightly curved, or lower in its middle part than toward its ends.

To the bottom of the tub A are attached cleats C D, which are made half round, orare rounded off upon4 their upper sides.

The cleats C, four (more or less) in number, extend across the middle part of the tnb A.

The cleats D are arranged in V-shape upon both sides of the cleats C, as shown in fig. 2.

rIhe ends of the cleats O D do not extend quite to the sides of the tub A, so that the water can have a free course in 4flowing down to the discharge-orifice when being drawn off.

. E are cleats, half round, or rounded upon their outer sides, which are attached to the edges of two or three disks F, which disks are attached to a shaft, G, the journals of which work in bearings in the lower ends of the bars H, which are connected to each other and* held in their proper relative position by the cross-bar I, placed a little .above the hollow or open cylindrical rubber E F G.

The upper ends of the bars .H pass up through holes` in the shaft J," the ends or journals of which work in holes or bearings in'the upper ends of the standards K, the lower ends of which are attached to the sides of the box or tub A. A

L are bars, the outer ends of which are connected by a round or cross-bar, IVI, and the inner ends of which are pivoted to or connected with the cross-bar N, the ends of which are attached or pivoted to the swinging bars H, at or near the upper edge of the box or tub A.

In using the machine, the clothes to be washed are placed upon the bottom o f the tub or box A, and the open rollerE F Gis' moved back and forth upon-them by means of the bars L M, which serve as a handle to the said roller.

The roller E F Gr is helddown upon the clothes by its own weight during its entire movement, lthe arrangement ofthe bars H and shaft J allowing it to do this, the said bars H sliding in the holes in the shaft J. Having thus described my invention,

I claim' as new and desire to secure by Letters- Patent- The combination and arrangement, with the box or tub A B, of the cleats C and D, roller E F, bars H, cross-bar I, shaft J bars L, and cross-bar M, as herein shown and described. Witnesses: .ELIAS ORIGK.

WM. F. KELLER,

GEO. W. Rien.. 

